FIFA Ranking: November 2008 preview (II)

Germany up to 2nd.England return to the top 10.Paraguay enter the top 20 and are 3rd in CONMEBOL, overtaking Uruguay.Israel will improve (again!) their best ever ranking, climbing one place to 15th. With a win (instead of a draw) against Latvia they would have been tied for 8th place with Russia...Ireland overtake Northern Ireland.USA still in front of Mexico.Switzerland climb 18 places after defeating Greece.Australia top the AFC ranking.Ghana continue to fall, now they're fourth in Africa.Jamaica will be the highest climbers on the back of their two qualifying wins - 34 places.

There are still some matches to play: ASEAN Cup preliminaries, Caribbean Championships preliminaries, Merdeka Cup and a couple of friendlies.